Byline: Will Peischel

Last January, Philadelphia-based lo-fi band Pill Friends left a message on their Facebook page. The words were blunt and brief. “It was a good run, but we were all born losers. RIP pill friends,” the post read. Despite circumstances, the self-loathing style of the words was Pill Friends-esque as ever. The...

This Saturday, October 1, the seventh embodiment of the increasingly legal Central Coast music festival called The Shabang will be held at Laguna Lake Park in San Luis Obispo. Building upon its past successes, there will be live local music, food trucks, art, games and friends, with events...

Last year, LA-based bedroom electronic artist Diveliner debuted a single track, frankly-titled “Visit 1.” The track bounced around the internet and collected some 13,000 listens along with it. Now, Diveliner is surfacing again with a new track. Again, there was no beating around the bush here; the song is...

Alex Giannascoli sits on a plated Venn diagram, centered between the rising Philadelphia DIY scene and the nooks of Bandcamp that, up until now, he’s hidden himself in. He was 13 when he started experimenting with his Macbook to produce “unpolished” music that would later christen him the...